United for Peace and Justice keeps downplaying the Iraqi genocide

Dear Phillys Bennis and Leslie Cagan,

I have read on ZNet the UFPJ article, Iraq: The People's Report

It reads:

Leslie Cagan, National Coordinator of UFPJ, says, "We feel it is essential to provide a true picture of what the shattered lives of the 25 million Iraqis look like today. For four years now we have been hearing the same false claims that the U.S. is making important gains, but they have never been true. Prepared by Phyllis Bennis and Erik Leaver, researchers at the Institute for Policy Studies, Iraq: The People's Report, takes an honest look at what this war has cost the people in Iraq and our communities here in the U.S."

Through the link provided I went to the actual report.

It reads:

COST TO IRAQ:

IRAQ CIVILIAN CASUALTIES: ESTIMATES RANGE FROM 71,017-600,000+

This is wrong and you know it.

The IBC figures are not an estimate but a count from western media.

Just yesterday ZNet published the following article:

Is the U.S. Responsible for a Million Iraqi Deaths?
by Patrick McElwee and Robert Naiman
September 11, 2007
Just Foreign Policy

Please, read this article to understand why your UFPJ report is NOT an honest report for what concern the Iraqi slaughtered as a result of the US-led invasion.

This is not a small detail and you know it.

I have spent the last three years writing you on the importance to highlight the human cost of this war of aggression and to give the due importance to the only scientific studies available out there.

Yet, you keep accrediting the idea that there is a confusion or uncertainty about the Iraqi “casualties” (by the way, couldn’t you find a better term?)

In disbelief,
Gabriele Zamparini
London